New RISC-V DevTerm is a retro-looking computer that would be great for programming and development work.

The new RISC-V DevTerm is a minicomputer that would be great for programming on the move. Does this machine have an open-source, RISC-V CPU in a regular computer? Yes, it does. This is a machine using the RISC instruction set and not Intel x86. This looks very retro and awesome at the same time. The … Read more

Very nice old computer magazine I found. This is an old copy of Byte magazine from 1996.

A nice old copy of Byte magazine from 1996 This is a very old computer magazine I found on the Internet. This has computer advertisements from 1996. It is amazing that back then you only needed a 166 MHZ CPU and 16 Megabytes of RAM to run office applications and a Windows operating system. Now … Read more

The best PC hardware to upgrade a gaming PC for the holiday season.

Gift suggestions for buying PC hardware in America There are many excuses to upgrade a machine of yours for this holiday season. Gaming is one very good reason. The gift of powerful PC hardware would be much appreciated when games are becoming more and more demanding of PC specifications. Especially the CPU and RAM. Buy … Read more

Lovely new Intel based mini computer. A perfect gift for the Linux user in your household.

Intel Nuc mini-computer This amazing new mini-computer is the perfect little machine for running a Linux server and hosting a website. Or just experimenting with Linux in general. This is available on Amazon for $682.00. I think it would be fine for a server, as it has no fans and although it only has Intel … Read more

Gui and mouse as well as videoconferencing demonstrated in 1968.

In 1968, December 9, Douglas C. Englebart and the group of 17 researchers working with him demonstrated a system they named NLS, something they had worked on since 1962. The public presentation demonstrated the computer mouse for the first time, but the day also revealed hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking as well as … Read more

Computer repair shops in India. Good places to get help with computing issues.

Computer repair shops in India Some very friendly and prompt computer repair shops in India for anyone in India with computer or mobile phone/tablet issues. DigiMAN India. Address: 312, Aggarwal Arcade, C Block,, Pitampura, Delhi, 110088, India. Phone: +91 1800 103 4551 Nestech India. Address: D-139, Sector 20, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301, India. Phone: +91 … Read more

How the design of the user interface has changed from the olden days of the computer.

The computer user interface has come a long way since the early days of the computer. This has not always been for the best. The iMac screen below shows a good example of UI design. This is a very usable and fast interface. The Finder allows you to find applications easily and also navigate the … Read more

Watch computer booting sequence in your web browser. This is a very cool web site I found.

http://www.therestartpage.com/#. This is a website that has shutdown dialogs for a host of operating systems. Click restart on one of them and you can watch the restart animation and/or POST for that OS. This is one very cool website. The ability to see what the boot animation for Windows `95 and 2000 looked like really … Read more

Keeping your computer and workspace clean is very important; this is why.

Keeping your computer desktop clean as well as cleaning out the actual machine is very important. The picture to the left shows an extreme example. But if the internals of the computer are dirty then the performance of the computer may be affected as well as shortening the life of the components such as the … Read more

How to increase the size of a Virtualbox VDI disk image on a Macintosh computer. And other useful tips.

How to expand a VDI disk image on a Macintosh computer: http://mithunme.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/how-to-increase-the-disk-size-of-a-ubuntu-vdi-on-mac/. This would also be applicable to a Linux machine. A very useful tip. How to add a standard user to the /etc/sudoers file on a Macintosh computer: http://mithunme.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/adding-a-standard-user-to-etcsudoers-in-mac-os-x/. This is also applicable to a Linux machine. How to install World Of Warcraft on … Read more

New quantum supercomputer unveiled and is the entire universe a simulation?

The supercomputing world is due to be turned on its head with the unveiling of the D-Wave quantum supercomputer that has massive computing power in one single chip. This will take the computing world in new directions. The ability to calculate many numbers simultaneously instead of one after the other will mean that you could … Read more

From the ABC, ENIAC and now the TITAN supercomputer, we have power we could only dream of before.

The first electronic computer; the ENIAC, was born of the need to calculate ballistics tables for a sideways firing from air-planes. This necessitated the construction of the massive computer to hold vacuum tubes pulsating at 100,000 beats per second. The computational speed was estimated to be at 1,000 multiplications per second, this would be able … Read more